Economics of Labour's plan to nationalise broadband – £20 billion cost is unrealistic

Greig Paul

Economics of Labour's plan to nationalise broadband – £20 billion cost is unrealistic

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Abstract

Labour has promised to give every home and business access to free full-fibre internet by 2030 if elected in the 2019 UK election. To do this, it plans to nationalise several parts of BT and create a free-of-charge, nationalised public broadband service under the banner of “British Broadband”.

Original language	English
Type	The Conversion Blog
Media of output	Blog
Place of Publication	London
Publication status	Published - 18 Nov 2019

Keywords

broadband
internet connectivity
nationalised broadband
human rights

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Economics of Labour's plan to nationalise broadband – £20 billion cost is unrealistic

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